THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION. —November 4,1856. 71 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
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Day of 
Week. 
NOVEMBER 4—10, 1856. 
Weather near London in 
1855. 
Sun 
Rises. 
Sun 
Sets. 
Moon 
R. & S. 
Moon’s 
Age. 
Clock 
af. Sun. 
Day of 
Year. 
Barometer. 
Thermo. 
Wind. 
Rain in 
Inches. 
4 
Tu 
The streak Moth. 
30.123—29.933 
46—24 
N.F.. 
.01 
1 a 7 
26 a 4 
9 2 
7 
16 
17 
309 
5 
W 
Gunpowder Plot, 1G05. 
30.180—30.161 
50—29 
W. 
.00 
3 
24 
10 23 
3 
16 
15 
310 
6 
Th 
Bunting’s note ceases. 
30.118—29 988 
59 — 46 
s.w. 
.02 
5 
22 
11 53 
9 
16 
12 
311 
7 
F 
Wood-pigeons flock. 
29.857—29-682 
55—43 
s.w. 
.02 
7 
21 
morn. 
10 
16 
9 
312 
8 
S 
[Wales born, 1841. 
29.587—29.487 
52—27 
s.w. 
.56 
9 
19 
1 20 
11 
16 
4 
313 
9 
Sun 
25 Sunday" after Trinity. Pr. 
29.801—29756 
59—40 
s. 
.02 
11 
17 
2 48 
12 
15 
59 
314 
10 
M 
The marbled chestnut Moth. 
30.045—29.857 
58—36 
s. 
-.00 
12 
16 
4 17 
13 
15 
53 
315 
Meteorology of the Week. —At Chiswick, from observations during the last twenty-eight years, the average highest and lowest 
temperatures of these days are 51.3°, and 37.2°, respectively. The greatest heat, 63°, occurred on the 5th, in 1852; and the lowest cold, 18°, on 
the 9th, in 1851. During the period 96 days were fine, and on 100 rain fell. 
The October Meeting of the Entomological Society was 
held on the 6tli instant, I. 0. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., 
Vice-President, in the chair. Donations of numerous 
Entomological works were announced from the Royal 
Society, the Society of Arts, the Natural History 
Society of Geneva, Messrs. Saunders, Walker, Stainton, 
Guerinmeneville, and Dr. Burmeister, who was present 
at the meeting, having arrived the previous day from 
Germany, on his way to Brazil, on a Natural History 
excursion, undertaken with the view of completing the 
great works on the Zoology and Geology of that country 
already commenced by that author. 
Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a beautiful specimen 
of the rare Garabus intricatus, taken by Mr. Reading 
in a wood near Plymouth, the old locality recorded by 
Dr. Leach, which had been doubted by subsequent 
writers; also, a bottle of liquorice-powder destroyed by 
the caterpillars of a small Moth, Tinea fenestrelict. The 
same insect had also proved very injurious in a cask of 
flour. Also, a box of small, beautiful Moths belonging 
to the families Tineiilce and Tortricidcc, from Moreton 
Bay, South Australia; and a specimen of the rare 
British Beetle, Monohamuius Sutor, taken in an old 
Ash-tree at Yaxley, in Huntingdonshire. 
Mr. Stainton exhibited some very curious cocoons 
and cases of Lepidopterous larvae from South Australia; 
also, some British larva) preserved in spirits in closed 
glass tubes. He also read a note from Dr. Collingwood 
on the preservation of larvae, so as to preserve their 
colours and markings. 
Mr. Dutton exhibited a remarkable dark variety of 
| Polyommatus Adonis, with the ordinary markings nearly 
I effaced. He also stated, that on a recent occasion he 
had observed Nomophila hybridalis in great quantities 
on the coast of Eastbourne, near Beechey Head, but 
that, on the following day, not a single specimen was to 
be found, although the weather was equally fine, and 
no change had taken place in the wind. Mr. E. Brayley 
considered that this fact threw a light upon certain 
peculiarities which had been observed in the deposits of 
fossil insects, and which had not hitherto been explained. 
Mr. Westwood brought for distribution among the 
members specimens of Lophyms rufus, of which he had 
reared a number of females only, from larvae received 
from a correspondent. Other larvae which he had taken 
j at Oatlauds had, however, produced both the sexes. 
He also mentioned various other instances in which 
\ specimens of only one sex of different species had been 
observed. The queen of the hive, for instance, occa¬ 
sionally only deposits male eggs; on the other hand, 
females only of the British Ink Gall had been hitherto 
reared in great numbers by several observers. Ho also 
brought for distribution a number of specimens of the 
small Honeycomb Moth, Galleria alvearia, the larvae of 
which had entirely destroyed a case of preparations 
illustrative of the products obtained from insects, ex¬ 
hibited by him in the Trade Museum formed at the 
Society of Arts during the summer of 1855. He also 
mentioned various peculiarities relative to their economy, 
and likewise communicated a letter received from Mr. 
Yarrell shortly previous to his decease, concerning the 
great scarcity of the May Fly in the trout streams of 
various parts of the country during the past season, 
together with the equally curious fact that the fish 
would not touch the imitation fly used by anglers. He 
also presented, on the part of Mr. Spence, a box of 
minute and very interesting insects of all orders, col¬ 
lected by Mr. Thwaites, the talented curator of the 
Botanic Garden at Paradenia, in Ceylon. 
Mr. Nuneham exhibited the rare Moth, Ypononieuta 
20-jmnctata, which had been reared from larvae found 
upon Sedum Telephium, near Guildford. The insect had 
been proved to be double-brooded. 
Mr. Waterhouse mentioned a remarkable instance of 
the destructive powers of the small Honeycomb Moth. 
Having placed some specimens in a glass vase, the top 
of which was covered by a thick quarto volume, the 
larvae had eaten their way entirely through the book, 
and effected their escape into the room, where they 
attacked other articles. 
Mr. Moore exhibited specimens illustrating the history 
of Lopliyrus rufus, found at Mickleham. All the spe¬ 
cimens which he had reared had also proved to be 
females. 
Mr. Syme exhibited the larvae of the rare Deilephila 
Galii, taken at Deal. The young larva) were quite unlike 
the full-grown ones, the former being green, and very 
like those of Macroylossa stellatarum, whilst the latter 
were black, with red spots. 
Mr. F. Smith read the description of a singular new 
species of Bee from South Australia, remarkable for 
having bipectinated antennae, a peculiarity hitherto only 
observed on two or three other species of aculeate 
Hymenoptera. 
No. ccccxxirr. Vol. xyii. 
